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Posted by pullet_surprise on August 14, 2008, 1:25 pm
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pullet_surprise;807533 Wrote:
> Hello All,
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> Nice forums some good topics going on here :)
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> I have a boundary to my garden which is adjacent to a public footpath
> approx 50m long. Approx 40m of it has 6ft fencing with hawthorn hedge
> at about 8ft tall to the footpath side. The hawthorn runs all the way
> down to the bottom but is very thin to the last 30m as it has grown so
> tall i.e. 20ft. I have cut all this back down to about 6/8ft but still
> this hedge is probably in partial shade due to two large neighbouring
> beech (Fagus L.) trees. I need some privacy to my garden as the hawthorn is hedge
> can be easily viewed and passed through. I have toyed with the idea of
> planting leylandii behind the hawthorn just to act as a fast growing
> screen until the hawthorn picks up (if it does).
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> I love the hawthorn because the birds like it and it has excellent
> security values, but the leylandii sounds good as a fast growing hedge
> but the horror stories and the fact its not native make me nervous.
> How would these two interact so close to each other i.e. hawthorn and
> leylandii 2 ft apart? Does anyone have any thoughts on this being a
> good or bad idea?
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